GC31H
Global and Regional Water-Food-Energy Security under Changing Environments I

Wednesday, 16 December 2015: 08:00-10:00
2022-2024 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Yoshihide Wada, Utrecht University, Department of Physcial Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands
Conveners:  Michael Joseph Puma, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Martina Floerke, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany and Masih Akhbari, Riverside Technology Inc., Fort Collins, CO, United States
Chairs:  Yoshihide Wada, Utrecht University, Department of Physcial Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands, Michael Joseph Puma, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States and Martina Floerke, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
OSPA Liaisons:  Masih Akhbari, Riverside Technology Inc., Fort Collins, CO, United States
08:00
Satellite Observations of Groundwater Storage Variations and Their Application for Water Security Monitoring (Invited) (60895)
Matthew Rodell1, James S Famiglietti2, Bailing Li3, Sujay Kumar1 and John T Reager II4, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
08:15
Advances in remote sensing for vegetation dynamics and agricultural management (75451)
Michael Joseph Puma, Columbia University, Center for Climate Systems Research, New York, NY, United States and Compton J Tucker, NASA Goddard Space Flight Cen., Greenbelt, MD, United States
08:30
Water dependency and water exploitation at global scale as indicators of water security (79712)
A.P.J. De Roo1, Hylke Beck2, Peter Burek3 and Bisselink Bernard1, (1)Joint Research Center Ispra, Ispra, Italy, (2)Joint Research Center Ispra, Water Resources Unit, Ispra, Italy, (3)IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
08:45
Assessment of global water security: moving beyond water scarcity assessment (77912)
Animesh K Gain, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section 5.4 Hydrology, Potsdam, Germany
09:00
An integrated water-energy-food-livelihoods approach for assessing environmental livelihood security (72069)
John Duncan1, Eloise M Biggs1, Bryan Boruff2, Eleanor Bruce3, Andreas Neef4, Kellie McNeill4, Floris Frederik van Ogtrop3, Billy Haworth3, Stephanie Duce3, Julia Horsley2, Natasha Pauli5, Jayne Curnow6 and Yukihiro Imanari7, (1)University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, (2)University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, (3)University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, (4)University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, (5)University of Western Australia, School of Earth and Environment, Perth, Australia, (6)Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra, Australia, (7)Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research, Kobe, Japan
09:15
Toward the Nexus Equation: A Conceptual and Mathematical Framework for Energy-Water-Food Nexus Analysis (75475)
Chad W Higgins, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
09:45
Contrasting rainfall declines in northern and southern Tanzania: Potential differential impacts of west Pacific warming and east Pacific cooling (65187)
Laura Harrison1, Chris C Funk2, James P Verdin3, Diego H Pedreros4, Shraddhanand Shukla1 and Gregory J Husak2, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)University of California Santa Barbara, Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (3)USGS/EROS, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)USGS Michigan Water Science Center, Lansing, MI, United States